Almeida puts the layer at another stage marked by pro-palestine protests | Cycling | Sports

The cry in favor of Palestine is not suffocated, scattered, but also articulated and combined, which are destabilizing the round. From the team counter, when several Protestants stopped the passage of the corridors of the Israel-Premier Tech, to the stage in Bilbao, when the organization decided to advance three kilometers the goal to avoid greater evils, since at the passage of the cyclists there was a rain of octavillas and flags that ended up turning on the cool with the Ertzaintza. Yesterday, from Cabezón de la Sal to Angliru, from Cantabria to Asturias, episodes against Israeli genocide were repeated, the police services contain the protesters, art and part of the race, also judges. So much so that. But there was more on a day when Almeida wrote with gold letters her triumph, no matter how much she could not take off from Vingegaard, who stresses again as the clear favorite for the final laurel.

Green earth, with lush forests and mountains that touch with the sky, also from Mar Bravo, the stage in the head of the salt started. It happened that, once again, the focus of attention and the tension not only occurred in the asphalt, then, organized by different groups, the protests in favor of Palestine, double Caceroolada in the signature position and at kilometer zero. The screams, in any case, did not pass from there, peaceful protest

“It is a region known as the bastion of extreme left activists and separatists who like to protest,” said Canadian and Jewish Zionist, friend of Prime Minister Netanyahu; “They are not our friends, that sure. I remind you that in the sixties and seventies, the Basque clandestine organization ETA operated and formed alliance with the PLO [Organización para la Liberación de Palestina]. He didn’t surprise us, but even with that, he had never seen such a dose of hatred. ”

Later, at the beginning of the climbing to Angliru, the one who spoke was the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who showed his absolute support to the Israel-Premier Tech team: “Excellent job, Sylvan [Adams] and team, for not giving in to hatred and intimidation. You make Israel feel proud, ”he wrote on his social network X profile.

It happened that at the pass of the platoon by Llanes, several protesters tried to interrupt the race. And, although they did not go out with theirs, retained by the police forces. Or at every hour, since in the last ascent, already to the skirts of Angliru, they did stop the escapees. Although to get there, there was still a story to tell.

That which began, almost recklessly, with the escaped rolling at 51.6 km/h during the first hour, as if they were not left the high of the Mozqueta and the Cordal, two first -class ports, and then the Angliru, a out of category in full rule, a 12 -kilometer mountain that is entangled to each reviracy, 24%ramps. But it was before, at the end of the Mozqueta, when Jungels, Tiberi, Vinokourov, Cepeda and Garofoli set another march, if I have seen you I do not remember. Not enough to pick up Pedersen, which in this return is an ode to work and effort, unique corridor and SUV, Sotajanovista day laborer; But for a Tiberi who punctured the wheel first and then fell into the descent, incapable after reconnecting with his deception partners, who already rubbed his hands because they dreamed of the stage triumph.

But it was a chimera because the marabunta came from the back to every pill and, above all, because the activists, as soon as the last risco started, managed to stop at the head of the race as a half minute, a penalty without remedy for the escapees and police of the police to eradicate them. A discouraging stop because they no longer looked back but back, because by the mirror they devoured the asphalt.

very demanding rhythm that the group denied – one in which it was no longer castrillo, because there was a top in the previous descent that made him leave the race, just like O’Connor – that, incidentally, he validated the natural selection, the strongest standing. 13 runners, the elite. Or almost, because when GrossSchartner took over, they only kept the pulse six. And, already, when Almeida decided to impose her rolling, her rhythm, Hindley and Kuss to stay, who content to make her shadow, without strength to attack, blow to endure the guy.

With his eyes to the front, concentrated, open mouth to enter the air and between a human hall that put chicken skin, an exercise that magnifies the sport, Almeida continued to climb the wall with his piolet. Rhythm, pedals, rhythm and keep me who can. Only Vingegaard could., That mountain that he baptized in 1999, emerging from the mist and advancing on the horn to Tonkov, El Chava Jiménez, the hero who needed the mountain to release his twisted fang. This time, in the middle of the protests, the layer put it Almeida.